Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 25.07.2011, 16:25 +0200 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz:
> On 20.07.2011 22:11, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I am confused as to the definition of the different levels of Ubuntu
> > Developers and how that relates to membership in each of the various
> > teams (though probably involves overall project membership as well).
> 
> > According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers an "Ubuntu
> > Prospective Developer" is someone "who probably just started
> > contributing to Ubuntu". The description on the wiki page doesn't list
> > anything critical there; the person still needs a sponsor to upload,
> > etc. From what I can read it's basically the same as Ubuntu Membership
> > but you're interested in eventually going down the development path
> > and you have a mentor/sponsor. Ok, that sounds good to me. This feels
> > like a position that should be relatively low barrier.
> 
> I am quite new to Ubuntu (~year). Started process being Ubuntu Developer
> ~half year ago. After reading of this wiki page and discussions with
> many people I see this list:
> 
> 1. "Ubuntu Prospective Developer"
> 
> - not Ubuntu member
> - no rights to upload
> - all changes though sponsors
> 
> 2. "Ubuntu Contributing Developer"
> 
> - Ubuntu member
> - no rights to upload
> - all changes though sponsors
> 
> 3. "Per Package Uploader"
> 
> - Ubuntu member
> - can directly upload some packages to repository (main, universe etc)
> - other changes though sponsors
> 
> 4. "Master Of The Universe" (MOTU in short)
> 
> - Ubuntu member
> - can directly upload any package to 'universe' (maybe also
>   'multiverse' but I do not know)

Yes, universe and multiverse.

> - other changes though sponsors
> 
> 5. "Ubuntu Core Developer"
> 
> - Ubuntu member
> - can upload any package to any part of repository
> 
> And then there is also one more:
> 
> 6. "Some Team member"
> 
> - Ubuntu member
> - can upload team packages to any(?) part of repository

That's similar to PPU. They can upload only packages that are part of
the team. For example, if you are member of Ubuntu Mozilla Uploaders
team, you can upload only Mozilla packages.

> - other changes though sponsors

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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